7th World Championships in Athletics
Host city	Seville, Spain
Date(s)	August 20 – August 29, 1999
Main Stadium	Estadio Olímpico
Nations participating	201
Athletes participating	1821
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The 7th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Estadio Olímpico, Seville, Spain, between the August 20 and August 29.

One of the main highlights of the games was the World Record set in the 400 metre sprint by the outstanding Michael Johnson of the United States of America in a time of 43.18 seconds.

Contents 1 Men's results 1.1 Track 1.2 Field 2 Women's Results 2.1 Track 2.2 Field 3 Medals table 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Men's results

[edit] Track

1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Maurice Greene (USA)	9.80 (CR)	Bruny Surin (CAN)	9.84 (=NR)	Dwain Chambers (GBR)	9.97 (PB)
200 m details	Maurice Greene (USA)	19.90 (SB)	Claudinei da Silva (BRA)	20.00 (PB)	Francis Obikwelu (NGR)	20.11
400 m details	Michael Johnson (USA)	43.18 (WR)	Sanderlei Claro Parrela (BRA)	44.29 (AR)	Alejandro Cárdenas (MEX)	44.31 (NR)
800 m details	Wilson Kipketer (DEN)	1:43.30	Hezekiél Sepeng (RSA)	1:43.32	Djabir Saïd Guerni (ALG)	1:44.18 (NR)
1,500 m details	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	3:27.65 (CR)	Noah Ngeny (KEN)	3:28.73 (NR)	Reyes Estévez (ESP)	3:30.57 (PB)
5,000 m details	Salah Hissou (MAR)	12:58.13 (CR)	Benjamin Limo (KEN)	12:58.72	Mohammed Mourhit (BEL)	12:58.80
10,000 m details	Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)	27:57.27	Paul Tergat (KEN)	27:58.56	Assefa Mezegebu (ETH)	27:59.15
Marathon details	Abel Antón (ESP)	2:13:36	Vincenzo Modica (ITA)	2:14:03	Nobuyuki Sato (JPN)	2:14:07
110 m hurdles details	Colin Jackson (GBR)	13.04 (SB)	Anier García (CUB)	13.07 (NR)	Duane Ross (USA)	13.12 (PB)
400 m hurdles details	Fabrizio Mori (ITA)	47.72 (WL)	Stéphane Diagana (FRA)	48.12 (SB)	Marcel Schelbert (SUI)	48.13 (NR)
3,000 m st. details	Christopher Kosgei (KEN)	8:11.76	Wilson Boit Kipketer (KEN)	8:12.09	Ali Ezzine (MAR)	8.12.73
20 km walk details	Ilya Markov (RUS)	1:23:34	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:24:19	Daniel García (MEX)	1:24:31
50 km walk details	Ivano Brugnetti (ITA)	3:47:54 (PB)	Nikolay Matyukhin (RUS)	3:48:18	Curt Clausen (USA)	3:50:55
4x100 m relay details	United States (USA) Jon Drummond Tim Montgomery Brian Lewis Maurice Greene	37.59 (WL)	Great Britain (GBR) Jason Gardener Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Dwain Chambers	37.73 (AR)	Brazil (BRA) Raphael de Oliveira, Claudinei da Silva Edson Ribeiro, André da Silva	38.05 (AR)
4x400 m relay details	Poland (POL) Tomasz Czubak Robert Maćkowiak Jacek Bocian Piotr Haczek	2:58.91 (SB)	Jamaica (JAM) Michael McDonald Greg Haughton Danny McFarlane Davian Clarke	2:59.34	none
AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record

• German Skurygin from Russia originally won the 50 km Walk with a time of 3:44:23, but he was disqualified after testing positive for drugs in November 2001.
• The Nigerian 4x100 m relay team (Innocent Asonze, Francis Obikwelu, Daniel Effiong, Deji Aliu), originally finished third in 37.91, but was disqualified on August 31, 2005 after it was found Innocent Asonze had failed a doping test on June 1999.

[edit] Field

1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS)	2.37 (WL)	Mark Boswell (CAN)	2.35 (NR)	Martin Buß (GER)	2.32
Long jump details	Iván Pedroso (CUB)	8.56	Yago Lamela (ESP)	8.40	Gregor Cankar (SLO)	8.36 (SB)
Pole vault details	Maksim Tarasov (RUS)	6.02 (CR)	Dmitri Markov (AUS)	5.90	Aleksandr Averbukh (ISR)	5.80 (NR)
Triple jump details	Charles Friedek (GER)	17.59 (WL)	Rostislav Dimitrov (BUL)	17.49 (PB)	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	17.48
Shot put details	C.J. Hunter (USA)	21.79 (PB)	Oliver-Sven Buder (GER)	21.42 (SB)	Oleksandr Bagach (UKR)	21.26
Discus throw details	Anthony Washington (USA)	69.08 (CR)	Jürgen Schult (GER)	68.18 (SB)	Lars Riedel (GER)	68.09
Javelin throw details	Aki Parviainen (FIN)	89.52	Konstadinos Gatsioudis (GRE)	89.18	Jan Železný (CZE)	87.67
Hammer throw details	Karsten Kobs (GER)	80.24	Zsolt Németh (HUN)	79.05	Vladislav Piskunov (UKR)	79.03
Decathlon details	Tomáš Dvořák (CZE)	8744	Dean Macey (GBR)	8556 (PB)	Chris Huffins (USA)	8547 (SB)
AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record

[edit] Women's Results

[edit] Track

1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Marion Jones (USA)	10.70 (CR)	Inger Miller (USA)	10.79	Ekaterini Thanou (GRE)	10.84
200 m details	Inger Miller (USA)	21.77 (WL)	Beverly McDonald (JAM)	22.22 (PB)	Merlene Frazer (JAM)	22.26
					Andrea Philipp (GER)
400 m details	Cathy Freeman (AUS)	49.67 (SB)	Anja Rücker (GER)	49.74 (PB)	Lorraine Graham-Fenton (JAM)	49.92 (PB)
800 m details	Ludmila Formanová (CZE)	1:56.68	Maria Mutola (MOZ)	1:56.72	Svetlana Masterkova (RUS)	1:56.93
1,500 m details	Svetlana Masterkova (RUS)	3:59.53 (SB)	Regina Jacobs (USA)	4:00.35 (PB)	Kutre Dulecha (ETH)	4:00.96 (SB)
5,000 m details	Gabriela Szabo (ROU)	14:41.82 (CR)	Zahra Ouaziz (MAR)	14:43.15	Ayelech Worku (ETH)	14:44.22 (PB)
10,000 m details	Gete Wami (ETH)	30:24.56 (CR)	Paula Radcliffe (GBR)	30:27.13 (NR)	Tegla Loroupe (KEN)	30:32.03 (NR)
Marathon details	Jong Song-Ok (PRK)	2:26:59 (NR)	Ari Ichihashi (JPN)	2:27:02 (PB)	Lidia Simon (ROU)	2:27:41
100 m hurdles details	Gail Devers (USA)	12.37 (WL)	Gloria Alozie (NGR)	12.44 (AR)	Ludmila Engquist (SWE)	12.47 (NR)
400 m hurdles details	Daimí Pernía (CUB)	52.89 (WL)	Nezha Bidouane (MAR)	52.90 (AR)	Deon Hemmings (JAM)	53.16 (SB)
20 km walk details	Liu Hongyu (CHN)	1:30:50	Wang Yan (CHN)	1:30:52	Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS)	1:31:18 (SB)
4x100 m relay details	Savatheda Fynes Chandra Sturrup Pauline Davis-Thompson Debbie Ferguson  Bahamas	41.92 (WL)	Patricia Girard Muriel Hurtis Katia Benth Christine Arron  France	42.06 (NR)	Aleen Bailey Merlene Frazer, Beverly McDonald Peta-Gaye Dowdie  Jamaica	42.15 (SB)
4x400 m relay details	Tatyana Chebykina Svetlana Goncharenko Olga Kotlyarova Natalya Nazarova  Russia	3:21.98 (WL)	Suziann Reid Maicel Malone-Wallace, Michelle Collins Jearl Miles Clark  United States	3:22.09 (SB)	Anke Feller Uta Rohländer Anja Rücker Grit Breuer  Germany	3:22.43 (SB)
AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record

[edit] Field

1995 |1997 |1999 |2001 |2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Inha Babakova (UKR)	1.99	Yelena Yelesina (RUS)	1.99	Svetlana Lapina (RUS)	1.99 (PB)
Pole vault details	Stacy Dragila (USA)	4.60 (WR)	Anzhela Balakhonova (UKR)	4.55 (AR)	Tatiana Grigorieva (AUS)	4.45
Long jump details	Niurka Montalvo (ESP)	7.06 (NR)	Fiona May (ITA)	6.94	Marion Jones (USA)	6.83
Triple jump details	Paraskevi Tsiamita (GRE)	14.88	Yamilé Aldama (CUB)	14.61	Olga Vasdeki (GRE)	14.61
Shot put details	Astrid Kumbernuss (GER)	19.85 (SB)	Nadine Kleinert (GER)	19.61 (PB)	Svetlana Krivelyova (RUS)	19.43
Discus throw details	Franka Dietzsch (GER)	68.14	Anastasia Kelesidou (GRE)	66.05	Nicoleta Grasu (ROU)	65.35
Hammer throw details	Mihaela Melinte (ROU)	75.20	Olga Kuzenkova (RUS)	72.56	Lisa Misipeka (ASA)	66.06
Javelin throw details	Mirela Manjani (GRE)	67.09 (PB)	Tatyana Shikolenko (RUS)	66.37 (PB)	Trine Hattestad (NOR)	66.06
Heptathlon details	Eunice Barber (FRA)	6861 (PB)	Denise Lewis (GBR)	6724	Ghada Shouaa (SYR)	6500
AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record

[edit] Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	United States	10	3	4	17
2.	Russia	5	4	3	12
3.	Germany	4	4	4	12
4.	Greece	2	2	2	6
5.	Morocco	2	2	1	5
6.	Cuba	2	2	0	4
6.	Italy	2	2	0	4
8.	Spain	2	1	1	4
9.	Ethiopia	2	0	3	5
10.	Romania	2	0	2	4
11.	Czech Republic	2	0	1	3
12.	United Kingdom	1	4	2	7
13.	Kenya	1	4	1	6
14.	France	1	2	0	3
15.	Australia	1	1	2	4
15.	Ukraine	1	1	2	4
17.	China	1	1	0	2
18.	Bahamas	1	0	0	1
18.	Denmark	1	0	0	1
18.	Finland	1	0	0	1
18.	North Korea	1	0	0	1
18.	Poland	1	0	0	1
23.	Jamaica	0	2	4	6
24.	Brazil	0	2	1	3
25.	Canada	0	2	0	2
26.	Japan	0	1	1	2
26.	Nigeria	0	1	1	2
26.	South Africa	0	1	1	2
29	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
29.	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
29.	Hungary	0	1	0	1
29.	Mozambique	0	1	0	1
33.	Mexico	0	0	2	2
34.	Algeria	0	0	1	1
34.	American Samoa	0	0	1	1
34.	Belgium	0	0	1	1
34.	Israel	0	0	1	1
34.	Norway	0	0	1	1
34.	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
34.	Sweden	0	0	1	1
34.	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
34.	Syria	0	0	1	1

[edit] See also

• 1999 in athletics (track and field)

[edit] References

• IAAF 1999
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